mr. kudlow and scotty. thank you all for your patience. lively conversation. we've got more to come. >>> speaking of donald trump, he will join me sunday exclusively on "meet the press." check local nbc station. >>> next -- how the gop's no compromise pledge, if you call it that, made way for the man behind art of the deal. did the lack of cutting deals by the republicans give trump an opening? later -- what to make of the growing calls for another choice on the ballot this november? look at how the never trump republicans are responding. >>> plus, libertarian candidate gary johnson will weigh in on the potential impact of his candidacy, should he end up the libertarian party nominee. ...clear for take f. see ya! when you're living with diabetes. steady is exciting. oh this is living baby! only glucerna has carbsteady, to help minimize blood sugar spikes. and try new glucerna hunger smart to help you feel full. e.t. phone home. when you find something you love, you can never get enough of it. change the way you experience tv with xfinity x1. >>> as we continue

mr. larry kudlow next. >>> plus facebook facing a big lawsuit over facial recognition.'re watching cnb business worldwide. they found out who's been hacking into our network. who? guess. i don't know, some kids in a basement? you watch too many movies. who? a small business in china. a business? they work nine to five. they take lunch hours. like a job? like a job. we tracked them. how did we do that? we have some new guys defending our network. new guys? well, they're not that new. they've been defending things for a long time. [ digital typewriting ] it's not just security. it's defense. bae systems. >>> welcome back. the u.s. labor department said we only brought in 160,000 jobs. let's bring in larry kudlow for his reaction. let's start things off -- thank you for joining us -- to the jobs report. >> the jobs report was mixed as you discussed. look. wages were better. jobs were slower. i just -- i have a hunch that we're going to see slower jobs going forward, kelly. as we talked before, i think business is in a mild recession, not yet the whole economy. i don't see

and change makes them nervous but when you have top-flight people like larry kudlow and others participating in with mrtrump and developing a new pro-growth strategy, i think they'll be very comfortable as time goes by just as legal scholars are going to be very much impressed with the list that he has listed for the supreme court. >> all right. you mentioned this list of the supreme court. if you don't mind me going back to that, as someone who sits on the judiciary committee, don willett, texas supreme court pick, potential pick, he's apparently tweeted some zingers at donald trump. many have. but did you know about that? do you think the campaign knew about that? do you think donald trump really cares? >> i doubt he cares. most legal scholars, the people that would like this list, they're looking for people not to advance a kconservative jae d agenda, neil. that's not what we want. we want judges who follow the constitution. when you have these activist judges that redefine the meaning of words to execute a political agenda that the american people don't favor and want passed, then you have a threat

>> well, larry kudlow and i met with mr. trump about a month ago. we've been working with his policy staff. so it's been fun. now, look. like on the tax plan, he has a tax plan, charles. he wrote that many months before we got involved, charles. what we're trying to do is tweak is a little bit. find way to refine it and improve it. when we met with him he was very open minded. by the way, these reports that he's backing off his tax plan, those are completely false. completely false. charles: one of your misgivings with donald trump and some of the others -- >> i know where you're going. charles: yeah. let's trade; right? let's talk about this. >> yeah. charles: the populous movement right now is that trade has hurt america, and it's propelled bernie sanders to almost, you know, certainly within striking distance of the democratic nomination. >> yeah. charles: and it has donald trump extraordinarily competitive in those key swing states. >> you're right. so i'm a free trader. you are a free trader. we know that free trade leads to more growth everywh

you have kudlow and steve moore and larry kudlow coming out with working with mr.his economic and his tax plan, saying it's a good plan. you really are seeing a shift. i think it's justified. i agree with it. i am there on donald trump. >> what about the consistency issue, or inconsistency issue? >> on hillary? oh, on trump. okay. i'm sorry. i thought you meant -- because she has been so consistent. >> it's much easier to say -- she has been more consistent on issues than trump has. >> what about tpp, what about keystone? >> i'm not pushing hillary here. >> she has not been more -- she has probably been less consistent than trump. >> that's not true. that just empirically not true. >> the interesting thing about this is mitt romney changed his position literally on like one issue. abortion. he changed from -- all you heard about was how he was a flip-flopper. donald trump changes his position every couple weeks on various issues and you don't hear he is a flip-flopper. he says, i look, i thought about it some more and now i have a better solution. people go, that s

mr. trump's plan for the economy would be? >> hi stuart. well larry kudlowus reagan columnist did meet last week an jeff is, you know, very high up in the hierarchy of the trump campaign no question about it. and i can't tell you all of the specific details that we talked about but i will tell you this he reenforce the idea that donald trump is totally committed to this tax cut plan. stuart i know there were these stories all last week that might be you might want to abandon tax cult. just said look this is one was single most important things donald trump wants to do. he also talked about about, you know, bring the the budget down and getting, you know, jeff was the budget committee chairman in the senate for almost four, five years he know it is that budget better than anybody and he said look we're going to work together to bring this budget deficit down and balance the budget for if the first time in 25 years. >> i think that's what a lot of people want to hear some clarity on the tax cut from donald trump if he becomes the president. that's what people

mr. trump goes to washington. the presumptive presidential nominee meeting with the house speaker paul ryan in an effort to unite the party. joining us now cnbc senior contributor larry kudlow historic moment. donald trump went into the meeting saying he'd like to do a deal. what do you think a likely deal will be? >> i think there's a bunch of issues here. i doubt if it's going to be 100% agreement. i think it's going to be 80% agreement. that's just a hunch on my part. both gentlemen would like to get together in the name of party unity, which is not inconsequential. but there's issues on tax reform, issues on immigration, issues on trade, issues about economic growth and issues about america's interests first. trum has his own agenda and he's been extremely sm -- >> here's reince priebus tweeting just four minutes ago -- the meeting was great, it was a very positive step towards party unity. so when you say "common ground," what are we talking about? >> by the way, reince priebus has been great through this. we haven't seen a good rnc chairman in a long time. he's been great. >> not an easy job. >> where do we see ryan? ryan's a good friend of mine. i think they're going